Eating and Drinking at the Royal Hospital of Mozambique Island: Medicine and Diet Change between the end of the 18th and the early 19th century by Eugénia Rodrigues

“…Mozambique Island, former capital of the Portuguese East Africa colony, was the crossing point of people from various continents, where culinary traditions sometimes mingled together and sometimes coexisted side by side. …”
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Os males do Brasil são: a doença como elemento distintivo da condição de ser brasileiro by Ermelinda Maria Araújo Ferreira

“…From there, it was intended to make an analysis of the construction and deconstruction of Brazilian identity myths as Jeca Tatu and Macunaíma, analyzing their background in Portuguese literary imagination and its impact on modern Brazilian literature.…”
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Quand les « Diables » deviennent de bien jeunes maires by Irène Dos Santos

“…Through a study of the Boys’ Festival, an initiation and regeneration rite performed in the middle of winter, this article aims to examine the place allocated to young people, and the place they claim for themselves in a changing Portuguese society. …”
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O Diálogo entre o urbanismo português e os rios como identidade territorial brasileira by Margarida Valla

“…Its aim was to represent the Portuguese presence through the urban settlements and fortresses, and to study of indigenous people culture, zoology, botany and geography. …”
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Una fiesta barroca en tiempos de Carlos II : el auto de fe madrileño de 1680 by Vincent Parello

“…Catholicism reveals itself as the enemy of Protestantism, Mahometism and Judaism, whose heresy is materialised in the 104 marranos of Portuguese origin.…”
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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Fake News: A Comparative Study of Instagram Users in Greece and Portugal by Evangelia Pothitou, Maria Perifanou, Anastasios A. Economides

“…This study investigates the ability of Greek and Portuguese Instagram users to identify fake news, highlighting the influence of cultural differences. …”
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A natureza como interpelação nos livros didáticos de geografia nos Estados Novos (Brasil e Portugal, 1929-1946) by Rogata Soares Del Gaudio, Doralice Barros Pereira

“…The representations also supported some of the actions of these authoritarian governments on people, spaces and territories (internally and externally).…”
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Liminarités, fissures et réécritures : un événement à la frontière entre le nord du Portugal et la Galice by Paula Godinho

“…Information about these events has been covered up and distorted by Portuguese censorship.…”
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Interventions to address mealtime support needs in dementia: A scoping review. by Lígia Passos, João Tavares, Melissa Batchelor, Daniela Figueiredo

“…This scoping review aimed to identify and summarize available research literature on mealtime interventions for people with dementia, and their impact on older people with dementia living in a residential care setting, care staff, and care context/environment. …”
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José Olallo Valdés: a Cuban male nurse to be remembered by Onassys Barreiro Alberdi, Yanet Blanco Fleites

“…He belonged to the order San Juan de Dios, founded by a Portuguese religious man in 1539.…”
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Reference dietary patterns in Portugal: Mediterranean diet vs Atlantic diet by Guiné Raquel P. F., Florença Sofia G., Amaral Ana Luisa, Costa Cristina A.

“…It includes a review of 15 studies specifically focused on the Portuguese population. Most of the studies were conducted with younger people (children or adolescents) or older people, and some were made with patients suffering from a specific pathology, like heart disease, AIDS, or macular degeneration. …”
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Where are Our Educators? by Елізабет Тюнс, Зоя Рібейро Престес

“…For exempl, a confessed Manichaeism was present in the initial vision of Max Fisher – a reporter for the New York Times – regarding social networks and digital platforms, as he himself declared in the book The Chaos Machine (Fisher, 2023), which he published in 2022, translated into Portuguese, in 2023. Like many, at the beginning, he assumed that the dangers of social media came mainly from inappropriate use by malicious people – propagandists, spies, spreaders of fake news – and that, at worst, the platforms were a passive pipeline where the existing problems in society ran. …”
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As galinhas incontáveis. Tupis, europeus e aves domésticas na conquista no Brasil by Felipe Ferreira Vander Velden

“…This article explores the interaction between the Tupi-speaking indigenous peoples in coastal Portuguese America and the domestic chicken introduced in the first years of the conquest. …”
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Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the CFAbd-Score for gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with cystic fibrosis by Flávia N.S. Infante, Elizete A. Lomazi, Carlos Zagoya, Franziska Duckstein, Daniela O. Magro, Fernando Pessotto, Antônio F. Ribeiro, José D. Ribeiro, Jochen G. Mainz

“…Conclusion: The CFAbd-Score was adapted to the Brazilian spoken Portuguese and demonstrated content and semantic equivalence. …”
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Built environment and physical activity for the elderly: a systematic review of South Ame by Hermes Koller De Paiva, Édina Maria de Camargo, Rodrigo Siqueira Reis

“… A systematic review was conducted to evaluate studies on the association between the characteristics of a built environment and levels of physical activity (LPA) of elderly people in South America. The searches were conducted on the Bireme, SciElo, Web Of Science and Scopus databases in 2017. …”
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Implicit Forms of Ethnic Insult for Europeans (as Found in Rhyming Slang) by E. Y. Gorshunova, Y. V. Gorshunov

“…The undertaken analysis of ethnic labels as used to name people from Europe has revealed a broad spectrum of Rh.sl. ethic labels. …”
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Study of machine learning techniques for outcome assessment of leptospirosis patients by Andreia Ferreira da Silva, Karla Figueiredo, Igor W. S. Falcão, Fernando A. R. Costa, Marcos César da Rocha Seruffo, Carla Cristina Guimarães de Moraes

“…Abstract Leptospirosis is a global disease that impacts people worldwide, particularly in humid and tropical regions, and is associated with significant socio-economic deficiencies. …”
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Systematic Review Shows Only Few Reliable Studies of Physical Activity Intervention in Adolescents by Nara Michelle Moura Soares, Arley Santos Leão, Josivan Rosa Santos, Glauber Rocha Monteiro, Jorge Rollemberg dos Santos, Sara Maria Thomazzi, Roberto Jerônimo dos Santos Silva

“…Due to heterogeneity in their contents and methodologies, as well as the lack of jobs that accompany adolescents after the intervention period, one cannot draw conclusions about the actual effects of the intervention programs of physical activity on the behavior of young people.…”
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AI-Based Advanced Approaches and Dry Eye Disease Detection Based on Multi-Source Evidence: Cases, Applications, Issues, and Future Directions by Mini Han Wang, Lumin Xing, Yi Pan, Feng Gu, Junbin Fang, Xiangrong Yu, Chi Pui Pang, Kelvin Kam-Lung Chong, Carol Yim-Lui Cheung, Xulin Liao, Xiaoxiao Fang, Jie Yang, Ruoyu Zhou, Xiaoshu Zhou, Fengling Wang, Wenjian Liu

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The Impact of Onchocerciasis Elimination Measures in Africa: A Systematic Review by Policarpo Ncogo, Christine Giesen, María Jesús Perteguer, Maria P. Rebollo, Rufino Nguema, Agustín Benito, Zaida Herrador

“…More than 99% of infected people live in 31 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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